The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.


of his hat.
Cashiers Wife (reading-'The adj
vantages of paper are in its lack Of
bulk. A man could easily carry $4O,-
100000 if in $4,000 bills" Cashier
(meditatively)-"Well, well, I never
thought of it. Omaha World.
When lightning struck the barn of
James Smith, of Marion, Ind, he was
standing between his two horses with
three pigs nosing around their feet. At
the flash all the animals dropped dead,
while Smith was entirely unframed.
An odd time-piece is shown in
Philadelphia window. The front of
the clock is a large, round waiter. The
hours are marked on a dozen oyster
shells. A small plate, garnished with
slices of lemon. conceals the works, and
the hands are knife and fork.
Tom Webb, living near Millville,
CAL, has an apple tree on which he
grated the Duchess pear about two
years ago. The bud has done better
than the apple. but both bear fruit,
each after its kind. The strange part
of it is that pears and apples grow to-
gether on the same twig.
"A new process has been discovered
by which the most delicate patterns,
even of lace work, can be produced in
iron by casting the metal on the fabric
after the fabric has been carbonized.
Molten iron can be run on the most
delicate fiber in carbonized state with
out injuring or affecting it.
Settling Accounts: Delinquent sub.
scriber Ito editor)-"Good morning,
Mr.. Shears, I want to pay YOU"
Editor-"Ah, thanks. James, make
out a bill for Mr.. Sh-." DELINQUENT
Subscriber-''to pay you a compliment
on your last weeks issue. 1t was an
admirable number. "-Drakc's Trav-
ellers' Magazine.
Bridal parties who visit Washington
are disappointed because they can not
ascend to the top of the Washington
monument. Congress made no appro-
priation for furnishing steam power to
run the elevator, and unless a special
measure is introduced at the next ses-
sion the top of the shaft will be mac
cessible during another fiscal year.
"A Cleveland turfman owns horse
that can both trot and pace mile in
fast time. As PAGER the animal has
record Of 2:20a, which he made last
year. Early last spring his owner
changed him into trotter. and he has
made a splendid record this season.
The owner says he can, with twenty
minutes notice, change his horse from
PAGER into trotter, or vice versa.
1t was a good New England deacon
who said the other night in prayer
meeting, 1--WE thank thee, Lord, for
this spark of grace; and ask thee to
water it." And it was New England
parson who announced to his congrega-
ton on recent Sunday, "You will be
sorry to hear that the little church at
Jonesville is once more tossed upon the
waves, sheep without shepherd"
"A tract of 1865 acres, embracing
Wilmurt Lake and part of Big Rock
Lake, in Herkimer County, has been
bought for $40, 900. and club probably
will be organized with membership of
about twenty to own the property. Will
murt Lake is $500 feet above the level
of the sea, is fed by springs, and is
counted one of the best lakes in the
Adirondack region for fly fishing for
speckled trout-N 2. Sun.
One of the latest attempts to har-
ness the forces of nature for the service
of men is the adaptation of windmill
for the turning of dynamo, the cleo
tricity thus obtained being stored in
suitable batteries, and afterward used
In lighting beacons for the benefit of
the maritime interests. There is a
station of this kind near the mouth of
the Seine, and considerable success has
been obtained.
However big Toronto may become,
says the Globe, of that city, she will
never altogether lose certain air of
being an overgrown village unless her
citizens more generally develop sense
OF the beautiful and the becoming in
the treatment of their own property.
In such city of schools and churches
there ought to be sweetness and light
enough to make such barbaric de-
formity as a shortcut across a boule-
ward an unknown thing.
George Ambrose, who lives on the
Captain Okeson farm. couple of miles
east of Lexington, Mich, is the owner
of turkey hen that has brood of half
grown turkeys, among which is young
prairie chicken of apparently the same
age as its companions. Whether the
chicken was Matched with the turkeys
or adopted by the hen when small is
not known. The hen hid her nest out
in the field, and when she first made
her appearance with her young family
the chicken was with her. At first it
was very shy, but has since grown as
tame as the turkeys and shows no dis
position to leave.
A Paris correspondent tells about
the new handkerchiefs the ladies are